The Institute for Law, Science and Global Security in the Department of Government at

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was established to promote teaching and research in the area of intersection between

international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

and

international relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...

. The Institute sponsors undergraduate and graduate courses and runs a Master's Program in International Law and Global Security. The Institute seeks to inform the public policy debate about the nature, role and importance of international law as it connected to issues of science and global security. To this end, it sponsors a series of specific programs including the Program on Non-Proliferation Law and Policy, which is jointly run with the James Martin Center of the

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. Most recently, the Institute has begun a special initiative in the area of cyber security. Among the participants in this initiative have been former Director of the

Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...

General Michael Hayden Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligenc ...

, Siobhan Gorman, national security correspondent of ''

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'', and Suzanne Spaulding, former General Counsel for the

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. Since its creation, the Institute has also sponsored events with a variety of other speakers, including Paul D. Clement, former

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Bill Richardson William Blaine Richardson III (November 15, 1947 – September 1, 2023) was an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the List of governors of New Mexico, 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. ambassador to ...

, the Governor of New Mexico,

Neal Katyal Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and legal scholar. He is a partner at Milbank LLP and is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. During the Obama adm ...

, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and legal counsel to former detainee

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, and David H. Remes, a former partner at

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and currently representing detainees in the

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. The Institute was founded by Professors

Christopher C. Joyner Christopher Clayton Joyner (May 16, 1948 – September 10, 2011) was Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. With Anthony Clark Arend, he founded the Institute for International Law and Politics, which he directed ...

and

Anthony Clark Arend Anthony Clark Arend is an American international relations scholar. he is department chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University, and Professor of Government and Foreign Service. Education Arend received a Ph.D. (1985) and ...

, and was initially called The Institute for International Law and Politics. It is currently directed by Professor Joyner, and Professor

Catherine Lotrionte Catherine Lotrionte (born December 19, 1968) is an American legal scholar and academic, who is currently the Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security at Georgetown University. She also taught in the Master of Science in Forei ...

serves as the Associate Director of the Institute.

Amit Yoran Amit Yoran (December 1, 1970 – January 3, 2025) was an American businessman, most notable as the chief executive officer of Tenable, Inc. from January 2017 to December 2024. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Center for Inte ...

, former Chief of the National Cyber Security Division at the

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and Phillip A. Karber serve on the Board of Advisers of the Institute. From 2007 to 2009, Brendan P. Geary—previously an Associate Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and currently an Attorney in the Department of Justice's National Security Division—served as the Institute's William V. O'Brien Fellow.

References

External links

Institute for Law, Science and Global Security Home Page
* Video: Cyber Security, Law and Policy: An Integration of Discipline

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